NASA Goddard(@NASAGoddard):Black, white, and pink all over! 🐧 These flightless birds are making their impact on Antarctica’s Danger Islands, seen from space. The pink-orange hue to the islands isn’t from the land’s minerals, but from penguin droppings, tinted by a diet of krill. https://t.co/X4Wb1xI8A1

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Black, white, and pink all over! 🐧 These flightless birds are making their impact on Antarctica’s Danger Islands, seen from space. The pink-orange hue to the islands isn’t from the land’s minerals, but from penguin droppings, tinted by a diet of krill.